Sep 25, 2013

Sep 24, 1957

Little Rock, Arkansas

Sep 25, 1971

Sandra D. O’Connor

Sep 26, 1960

Debates: Kennedy-Nixon

Past – Future Topics

• Sep 13Culinary Delights• Aug 13 Picnic• Jun 13 Internet: Good, Bad & Ugly 5 min for each

person• May 13Backups Carol, Laura, Howard, Larry, et. al.• Apr 13Favorite 5: Websites & Apps/Programs• Mar 13 email scams Joe, Howard & Larry• Feb 13 Library Ann Jarvis• Jan 13 Win 8 Howard• Dec 12Christmas Party (3rd Wednesday)• Nov 12Latest Gadgets Joe (4th Wednesday)• Oct 12 APCUG Greg West• Sep 12 Fav. Programs Board Members• Aug 12 Picnic• Jun 12 YouTube Larry, Carol, Howard• May 12 Lightroom Bill• Apr 12 Disaster Plan Laura• Mar 12 Routers Howard• Feb 12 Cloud Larry

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Who Are Our Officers ?

• President Larry Piper

• Vice President Joe Lykowski

• Treasurer Laura Hammel

• Newsletter Carol Picard

• Membership Gary Ensing

• Webmaster Carol Picard

• Publicity Al Adams

• Program Co-Chairs Howard Lewis & Bill Tower

• At-Large Board Al Adams

Board Meeting(Sep 5, 2013)

• Still 27 members, $1,700

• Joe offered 14 mini-ideas

• Other ideas: Win XP, MOOC, How to forums

• Reject idea of fixing PCs, HW or SW

• Look at apcug.org for speakers; so-so

• Discussed: tablet printing, diagnostics, O’Reilly

• Scheduled room for 2013-2014

General Comments

• Membership Report• Treasurer’s Report• Status of Individual Members

• Tonight’s Raffle Drawing Item(s)

• On with the show …

IE zero day; get updates

Club Website

http://mcc.apcug.org

1 – added meeting agendas /piper2 – tonight: http://mcc.apcug.org/piper/MCC-Sep13.ppt

3 – newsletters: 2007 to present4 – may add 2000-2006; pub format5 – also have a utilities list /utilities

Current Newsletterhttp://mcc.apcug.org/newsletters.html

Ponderings: Q&A, Lab, Clean Out, Prog.

Howards Tips & Tricks: Win8, PasteCareline phoneSSE Review (Linus)Tablet keyboardBionic eyeBrowsing 101Text doctorAds & cookies

SATDriving lawsMutual FundsBureau of StandardsWater

General Questions

• New Hardware? Tablets• New Software? Win7, 8.1 Upgrades• Newsletter or Web Site?• Microsoft Updates? Other Updates?

• News: Technical? Club Facebook ?• Personal Experiences?• Computer Repairs?

What I Have Learned

What will you do with Win XP ?

Status of O’Reilly books

Boot CDs (for diagnostics)

Talked with Lynn Kauer Mary Branson

What Else I Have Learned

• Kingsoft works on PowerPoint

PDF: downloading & printing can be a problem

Foxit Phantom PDF

Memtest86+

Ask Leo Very Short Introductions National University rankings 8 Geek ways to use QR codes Top 50 Companies millennials want to

work 40 Maps to understand the world I, Cringley Fun way to use your webcam Reindeer swim

Interesting Web Sites - #2

• File types

• Chinese, 10 TB storage

• Startme.com

• Megaleecher.net

• Coursera edX Udacity •

Interesting Videos & Books

Lifehacker, 3rd Ed, Pash & Trapani, 2011, 476p, $30

Ollie & Me, Kauer, 2011, 120p, $8

www.webmd.com/food-recipes www.mayoclinic.com/health/healthy-recipes/RecipeIndex

www.lowfatcooking.about.com

www.eatingwell.com www.skinnytaste.com www.cookinglight.com www.hearthealthyonline.com/healthy-recipe

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www.tasteofhome.com/Recipes/Healthy-Eating

05/27/10

How to increase a partition size Remove MS Word blocks, sections, lines

Record conversion tools Use of Tables in Microsoft Word Yawcam for house monitoring Go to financial offers at H hotel ?

05/27/10

1 – Control Panel > Programs & Features (to uninstall)

2 – REVO Uninstaller

3 – CCleaner Tools > Save as TXT

05/27/10

9/23/1884 Hollerith patents punch card machine 64912/3/1896 Hollerith incorporates Tab Machine Co 6804/7/1969 RFC-1 requested; symbolic birth of future Internet 394

10/29/1969 1st message on ARPANET: login, crashed 80012/19/1974 1st PC, Altair 8800, $397 699

4/4/1975 Microsoft founded by Gates & Allen 1384/1/1976 Apple founded by Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniak 140

6/10/1977 Apple II goes on sale 6410/15/1977 Commodore PET sold 863

5/3/1978 1st email spam: Digital Equip, Gary Thuerk, 400/2600 5506/25/1981 Microsoft Incorporated 8/12/1981 1st IBM PC 70

12/26/1982 PC is Time's Man of the Year 2891/1/1983 ARPANET converted to Internet 356

3/15/1985 1st domain registered symbolics.com 4831/19/1986 1st PC virus 6513/14/1986 Microsoft IPO

11/12/1990 Tim Berners-Lee suggests hypertext 1024/22/1993 Mosaic browser released 3084/30/1993 CERN opens Internet to all, will be free 5685/11/1997 Deep Blue defeats Kasparov in chess 1439/4/1998 Google incorporated 634/3/2000 Microsoft ruled a monopoly 205

6/27/2008 Bill Gates steps down 9022/16/2011 Watson IBM wins on Jeopardy 4714/19/2011 Skynet becomes "self-aware" 9498/24/2011 Steve Jobs retires from Apple 600

Time for the Raffle Drawing ?

Survey

• GPS in car. Use it?

• Backup Heating: fireplace, propane, etc

• Browser: IE, Firefox, Chrome, Other

• List of medications & doctors

• System Info: Belarc, System

• Generator: hookup to home wiring

Windows 7 MovieMaker

Turn on Windows firewall (Win 7, my ASUS) Network Printers on XP Removing battery from laptop (bios

password)

Membership List

• Al Adams Frank Koenig• Jerry Arch Gust Kookootsedes• Larry Ault Howard Lewis• George Binder Joe Lykowski• Kathy Bohl Judy Vogel• Mary Branson Robert Miller• Terry Brown Harry Morton• Jim Carrier Frank Neeb• John Dashner Ron Picardi• D. Ducommon Carol Picard• Gary-Jan Ensing Larry-Judy Piper• Laura Hammel Shirley Salas• Rich Holbrook Bill Tower• Bill Kocher Lynn Walker